Carnival Glory Review
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My girlfriend, Summer, and I work hard and when it is time to take a vacation we both like to really take a vacation. For this last time off we put our sights on a cruise to the eastern Caribbean: lots to see, a little pampering, food, shopping, new shows on the cruise ships, and much much more. We probably should have done a bit more research on the ship we were getting on, but, the sights were wonderful, the people were friendly, the ocean magnificent, and shopping was to be found everywhere.
Leaving San Diego we boarded our jet and headed to Fort Lauderdale where we stayed our first night. While there we walked on the beach and enjoyed a small time soaking in the Florida heat. Then, we boarded a taxi which took us both into Miami where we bribed the taxi driver with his own coffee to take us into Little Cuba to get some real cuban coffee. After that he dropped us off at the pier in front of the cruise ship Glory.
The cruise started out bad with a problem with our stateroom door. After getting in the first time to drop off our carry-ons our door malfunctioned. We couldn't get back in for almost 4 or 5 hours(almost the late dining time.) We talked to housekeeping almost immediately they said that security would be down right away to help us. We waited by our cabin for about an hour until we decided to go up to the deck and watch as we left Miami.
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The cruise started out bad with a problem with our stateroom door. After getting in the first time to drop off our carry-ons our door malfunctioned. We couldn't get back in for almost 4 or 5 hours(almost the late dining time.) We talked to housekeeping almost immediately they said that security would be down right away to help us. We waited by our cabin for about an hour until we decided to go up to the deck and watch as we left Miami. Then, once Miami was at our aft, we went back to the stateroom still unable to get back in. We talked again to housekeeping they could not tell us what the delay was. We waited by our door for another half hour watching as others accessed their cabins and were delivered their luggage. That is when we noticed that our luggage had not been delivered yet. We wanted to get into our cabin and also shower and change into our dinner attire. We could not do either. We had neither. We watched as others luggage came and went and while looking for the source we found our luggage with the room tags that came with the boarding passes still attached were laying on a cart by the elevators. Almost, as if, they had been added to the lost and found. We claimed them and we put them by our door since nobody else would move them and we could still not access our cabin. I decided to talk to guest services. This had gone past annoying. Once at guest services, calls were placed to both maintenance and security to find out what the delay was. Apparently, the two could not get coordinated enough to be at the cabin door at the same time to figure out what the problem might be. It turned out to be the batteries in the keycard reader.A simple solution right? Wrong, it took them another hour to fix the door. They said it may have been a mechanism within the door handle itself. Still, another hour to fix the door once we have access to the room? This fix should not have taken that long. Anyways, once the door got fixed we had barely enough time to get showered and dressed for our first night of dining on the ship--which was good.